I have a decade of experience leading and managing product design to be more usable and accessible. Currently serving as consumer UX lead at OpenText, where my team and I are exploring how to modernize the consumer Webroot cybersecurity product. I’ve been advising our team how to apply various AI tools like Copilot, Figma AI, Lovable.dev, Claude Code, Google Gemini, and writing instructions for AI agents in Markdown.

Recently, I’ve increased my focus on being an outspoken advocate for those with disabilities and learning more from online resources to help product teams deliver designs that are more accessible. Using digital product accessibility to empower those with physical and psychological disabilities is personally rewarding, as I grew up visiting family members who struggled with various disabilities.

It’s important that we be mindful that a disability could be visible or invisible, something one is born with and experiences permanently, or something someone experiences temporarily from an injury.

My STEAM education in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Penn State and Visual Design Communication from Bucks County Community College provided a great education for me to apply my skills to a wide variety of clients and employers, including product brand identity and strategy, web design, mobile app design, and more recently, applying learning language models to modern AI innovations and defining requirements and risks for task automation in product design.

As an undergrad, I served as a research assistant at Penn State University’s Smeal College of Business’s marketing department, collecting examples of web search and shopping assistants. I conducted comparative and data analysis of businesses collecting personal user data to build profiles to more effectively target market products and services using their platforms.